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Users who are new to Ubuntu might find it somewhat difficult to configure. Today we take a look at using Ubuntu Control Center which makes managing different aspects of the system easier.

About Ubuntu Control Center

A lot of utilities and software has been written to work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu Control Center is one such cool utility which makes it easy for configuring Ubuntu. The following is a brief description of Ubuntu Control Center:

Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution. UCC uses all the native applications already bundled with Ubuntu, but it also utilize some third-party apps like “Hardinfo”, “Boot-up Manager”, “GuFW” and “Font-Manager”.

Ubuntu Control Center

Here we look at installation and use of Ubuntu Control Center in Ubuntu 10.04.

First we have to satisfy some dependencies. You will need to install Font-Manager and jstest-gtk (link below)…before installing Ubuntu Control Center (UCC). Click the Install Package button.

You’ll be prompted to enter in your admin password for each installation package.

Once you install UCC you’ll see how easy it is to configure your Ubuntu system through an intuitive clean graphical interface. If you’re new to Ubuntu, using UCC can help you in setting up your system how you like in a user friendly way.

I’m not trying to discount or bash Linux but why is the interface so amateur in look and feel? Its still very 1990’s. Linux is at least 20 years behind Microsoft and Apple in GUI elegance. And remember, LINUX is NOT Windows OR MAC so why all these stupid ‘start’ menus!

I see, you don’t actually have an idea what an operation system is actually ment for. The screens you see here are from standard Ubuntu using Gnome as GUI. There is also KDE, LXDE, OpenBox, Fuxbox, etc. Creating GUIs like M$ or Apple is just a useless way to waste hardware resources. You don’t want an operating system that looks shiny but doesn’t do sh**, do you?

The start menu is a point where all know operating system have something in common. So if you are new to Linux, BSD, Apple, Solaris, etc you know where your programms are and do not have to look for them in any “special” place. Besides *nix systems are not ment to be desktop systems